Plant Details

Accepted name:: Ipomoea muricata (L.) Jacq. [Convolvulaceae]
Source:: World Checklist ( High Taxonomic Confidence )
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
barik-bhomvari	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
bhaura	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
guggalvel	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kattu talai	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
kattutalai	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kattuttaall	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kotalayiya	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
krishnabija	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
lahare sag	Other	Pl. & People of Nepal (Manandhar, 2002)
lilac-bell	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
michaai	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
michai	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
mookathikaya	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
mookkatthi-kkai	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
niccan	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
niccatakkoti	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
niccatam	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
purple moonflower	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
skär månvinda	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
traveller’s midnight lilies	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
wallicha cranesbill	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
天茄子	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:
seed, resin	juice	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)

Kew's taxonomic resources include 20 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Calonyction muricatum (L.) G.Don Gen. Hist. 4: 264 (1837).
Convolvulus muricatus L. Mant. Pl. 1: 44 (1767).
Ipomoea turbinata Lag. Gen. Sp. Pl.: 10 (1816), nom. superfl.
Bonanox muricata (L.) Raf. Fl. Tellur. 1: 77 (1837).
Calonyction longiflorum Hassk. Pl. Jav. Rar.: 523 (1848).
Calonyction pseudomuricatum (Bernh. ex Link) G.Don Gen. Hist. 4: 264 (1837).
Calonyction speciosum var. muricatum (L.) Choisy in A.P.de Candolle, Prodr. 9: 345 (1845).
Cantua tuberosa Roem. & Schult. Syst. Veg., ed. 15[bis]. 4: 793 (1819).
Convolvulus colubrinus Blanco Fl. Filip., ed. 2.: 66 (1845).
Convolvulus petiolaris Kunth in F.W.H.von Humboldt, A.J.A.Bonpland & C.S.Kunth, Nov. Gen. Sp. 3: 82 (1818).
Convolvulus smilacifolius Salisb. Prodr. Stirp. Chap. Allerton: 124 (1796), nom. superfl.
Ipomoea bona-nox var. purpurascens Ker Gawl. Bot. Reg. 4: 290 (1818).
Ipomoea calderonii Standl. J. Washington Acad. Sci. 14: 242 (1924).
Ipomoea kirkiana Britten J. Bot. 32: 85 (1894).
Ipomoea petiolaris (Kunth) G.Don Gen. Hist. 4: 275 (1837).
Ipomoea pseudomuricata Bernh. ex Link Enum. Hort. Berol. Alt. 1: 200 (1821).
Ipomoea shirensis Baker Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew 1894: 74 (1894), nom. illeg.
Ipomoea spinulosa Brandegee Zoe 5: 169 (1903).
Ipomoea tubiflora Hook.f. Trans. Linn. Soc. London 20: 204 (1847).
Leptocallis quinata G.Don Gen. Hist. 4: 260 (1837), nom. superfl.

This plant is cited in medicinal sources using the following names:

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Calonyction muricatum	Consv. of Indonesian Med. Pl. (Cahyaningsih, 2020) Handbook African Med. Pl. (Iwu, 1993)
Calonyction muricatum (L.) G.Don	Orders & Families of Med. Pl. in Philippines (Carag & Buot, 2017) Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)
Calonyction muricatum G. Don	SOTWP 2016: Useful Pl. of W Tropical Africa (2015)
Calonyction muricatum G.DON	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
Chlonyction muricatum (L.) G. Don	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
Convolvulus muricatus L.	Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)
Ipomoea muricata (L.) Jacq.	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) SOTWP 2016: Kew Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2015) World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020) Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)
Ipomoea muricata (Linn.) Jacq.	SOTWP 2016: Useful Pl. of W Tropical Africa (2015)
Ipomoea muricata (Linn.) Jacq., non-Cav.	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
Ipomoea muricata (Linnaeus) Jacquin	Pl. & People of Nepal (Manandhar, 2002)
Ipomoea muricata Jacq.	Consv. of Indonesian Med. Pl. (Cahyaningsih, 2020)
Ipomoea muricata Jacquin	Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997)
Ipomoea turbinata Lag.	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
Ipomoea turbinata Lagasca	World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012)

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